Calling All Whistler Readers

Thanks to ike’s oldest granddaughter’s perseverance over several months, the ikewest.com/2025/ website has a new face—and on some pages, new…

How naïve of me to think that people, throughout the English-speaking world, who know nothing about me, would want to…

Recently, my granddaughter Sophie Eagle and I visited Minneapolis expressly to explore, not the giant Mall of the Americas, but…

I grew up telling my parents about memories I had as a baby. They were astounded by what I shared….

The following six song titles make for easily banked together quasi-Haiku. Please, lyrical reader, merely look down the list of titles, and you’ll see it is so. (Ah, poetry. It shows up everywhere.)

Years ago, I learn from my web designer son, an important marketing strategy regarding book titles and product names. It’s…

Yay! Two of my poems are included in the latest anthology, Uprooted published by the ChaosSectionPoetryProject.

Yay! Two of my poems are included in the latest anthology, Uprooted published by the fantastic ChaosSectionPoetryProject.

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— Eileen ike West (@ikewest.com) October 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM

It is a really hectic time for me—packing up to move from Texas to Oregon. This time for good. Just…

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.                                      ― Tom Robbins Beauty begins the moment you decide to…

Whistler of Petty Crimes Explores Shifting Time through Humor and Carefully Chosen Memories

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— Eileen ike West (@ikewest.com) November 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM

Here’s yet ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL REVIEW for Whistler of Petty Crimes
This one by Rae Longest – Originally posted on the website blog page of LITERACY & ME, June11, 2023…I thoroughly enjoyed this little volume, and indeed, it gave me a lot to think about and meditate upon.

A compendium of unique experiences real and accessible to others, ike West chronicles the middle decades of her life in…

Whistler of Petty Crimes: Poems
Invites readers to revisit the collection repeatedly,
Discovering new layers of wit, wisdom
And insight with each reading.

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— Eileen ike West (@ikewest.com) October 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM

I’m sitting on pins and needles, waiting to hear what people have to say about my first poetry collection Whistler…

Sure, I love my book cover at first sight. Wow! The colors! A full rainbow of them. And, how about…